In the dim and damp realm.

Qi Changrong walked out of the cell, and Ye Bai stood against the wall.

She arched her hand at him, and her voice was gentle: "It's hard work." ”

Ye Yan returned the salute with his hand, avoided half a step to the side, and said busily: "With a gesture, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is polite." ”

When the words fell, he saw that the prince's expression was as usual, and he had no intention of finding out what the second noble person of the Great Jin Dynasty had said to the prisoner in the cell, so he turned around and locked the cell again.

Before locking the door, Pu Ting sat by the wall with a faint breath, without the slightest movement.

Ye Yu was startled, thinking that the prince was angry and strangled the prisoner to death during the conversation, so he hurriedly stepped forward to investigate.

But at first glance, Pu Ting was just sitting, if anything had changed from before.

Before seeing the prince, Pu Ting still wanted to struggle, but after seeing him, he seemed to accept the facts, or knew that the struggle was useless, and his mood calmed down.

Ye Yan has always scoffed at criminals, he has seen too many sinners, so he didn't say anything, turned around and left, leaving Puting alone in the cold, closest to hell.

After returning to the East Palace, Qi Changrong took the pleadings and looked at them again and again, even if she had heard Pu Ting say it in person, the more she looked at it, the more angry she felt in her heart.

How dare you become a king! How dare he deliberately harm Junmen? Doesn't he know the meaning of Junmen and Dajin?

However, King Cheng is dead, and there is not even a descendant left, even if she is full of questions, she does not know who to ask, and no one can give an answer.

A breath of indignation filled his chest, Qi Changrong covered his mouth and coughed violently a few times, his voice was hoarse, which made everyone who heard it worry.

Hearing the sound, Shixia knocked on the door and entered, standing aside.

After helping the pulse, she noticed that Qi Changrong's mood was floating, and her heart pulse seemed to be damaged, she twisted her brows slightly, her eyes fell on the paper next to her, but the next moment she looked away, lowered her eyes and withdrew her hand.

"No matter what happens, Your Highness should take good care."

Qi Changrong smiled bitterly, his eyes were sudden, and his voice was deep: "Shi Xia, you said, why are there treacherous people in the world who frame people close to them, they play with and applaud the trust of others, and use this as a basis for doing nonsense, and then abandon them. Or is there really nothing more important in this world than profit? ”

Shi Xia paused and replied: "The slave doesn't know, the slave only knows that His Highness will not be wrong, and the slave believes what His Highness believes." ”

"That's it." Qi Changrong shook his head, closed his eyes and sorted out his chaotic thoughts: "You go down, you have to think about it yourself, it will be very chaotic outside in the near future, you and Shi Chun guard the East Palace, no matter what happens outside, the East Palace must not be lost." ”

Shi Xia nodded in response, bowed and retreated.

Before leaving, she seemed to see a haze gradually condensed between the prince's eyebrows, as if he was not in the same world as her.

With a 'bang', the heavy door of the temple closed tightly, isolating the two worlds inside and outside.

At this time, Qi Changrong was lonely.

She can't get out of her world, others can't get in, and no one in the world understands her.

She seems to be really going to be alone.

……

Chiang Mansion.

"My lord, according to the eyeliner, today the prince of the East Palace was in the prison of the Criminal Department to secretly interrogate Pu Ting, stayed for half an hour, and then left through the back door of the Criminal Department, and no one knew what the two of them said between them."

Listening to the secret guard's report, Jiang Bowen was slightly tired between his eyebrows, Jiang You has been making too much noise recently, from the princess's mansion to Jiang's mansion, it is already a chaos.

Pu Ting said: "Tonight's matter, can you order it to go down?" ”

"If you go back to your lordship, everything is ready."

Pu Ting exhaled a breath of turbidity and closed his eyes: "Very good, don't care about the white body in prison, your task is to take Pu Ting's life." ”

"My subordinates understand."

……

It was dark and the wind was high again, and the watchman passed through the criminal department, one person held a gong in his hand, and one person held a bang in his hand, knocking while walking, making a sound of 'tuk tuk ——— clang'.

"It's dry, watch out for the candles."

Today's night was especially dark, the sky was like a pitch-black cloth hanging between heaven and earth, and the stars and the moon were hiding behind the clouds, and there was no light.

The third watch has been beaten, and the child is at the end.

The quiet streets were bustling with activity, the candlelight of the nearby houses was getting brighter, and faint exclamations could be heard in the distance.

Take a closer look, a flash of fire rose from the backyard of the criminal department, illuminating the entire night sky,

"It's on fire, put out the fire......"

"Hurry up, hurry up, carry the water!"

"The fire is getting bigger, report it to the top."

The criminal department was in chaos.

After a while, the whole street was brightly lit, and the people consciously picked up everything that could hold water at home and rushed to the area of the criminal department that they did not dare to set foot in the daytime to help extinguish the fire.

In the chaos, the group took advantage of the hazy night to enter the prison......

A moment later, there was a roar of rage from the prison, followed by the violent sound of swords clashing.

After a stick of incense, one of the men in black, covered in wounds, staggered out of the prison, covering his face and unable to see his face, and immediately escaped from the wall into the back alley.

Immediately, Tian Shengyang chased out of the prison with a blood-stained sword, he looked at the blood stains left on the ground and extended to the wall, his eyebrows sank: "That person is not lightly injured, he must not be able to escape far, the three of you will follow me, and the rest will stay to help extinguish the fire." ”

"Yes!"

As soon as the words fell, Tian Shengyang jumped up and entered the back alley, chasing along the bloodstains on the ground.

The bloodstains disappeared along the edge of the lake.

Tian Shengyang stood by the lake and was silent for a long time.

After a moment, he asked, "Who will pass by the upstream and downstream?" ”

Along the lake, there is actually a river, where the upstream and downstream meet, and then it is opened up into a lake.

The bystander replied: "Chief, there are few homes along the upper reaches of the lake, and the downstream almost passes by the houses of the nobles." ”

"......" Tian Shengyang was silent.

As a result, he could not continue to pursue it.

Since he is a powerful person in the DPRK and China, he cannot search his home.

It's just that he was easy to survive, and finally asked someone to escape, and he really didn't know how to explain to Lord Shangshu after he went back.

……

In the icy water, a man in black struggled to swim forward, and after swimming a distance, the aquatic plants at the bottom of the lake wrapped around his ankles, and he clung to the raised stones on the shore to save his life temporarily.

The night continued, and a figure suddenly appeared on the shore, crouching down in front of the man in black.

The man in black said: "It's a trap, Pu Ting was turned away, except for me who escaped, the rest died on the spot." ”

"They're all dead?" The voice of the person who came was very cold, and suddenly reached out and pointed at the forehead of the man in black, and the voice became more and more cold and ruthless in the darkness: "Since they are all dead, then you should also die." ”

Killers who fail their missions are not qualified to live in the world.

As he spoke, his fingertips pressed his head into the water little by little under the incredulous gaze of the man in black.

There was a struggle under his hands, and the rapid splash of water gradually soaked the clothes of the people on the shore.

The more you struggle, the more turbulent the aquatic plants at the bottom of the lake become.

However, the man who came was unmoved, and it was not until the man in black was tightly entangled in the water and completely sank to the bottom of the water that he withdrew his hand and left in the direction he came.

……

East Palace.

The news of the fire in the criminal department came to the palace overnight, and Emperor Jin An was furious, got up in the middle of the night to summon Ye Quan, and the two talked all night in the imperial study.

Qi Changrong stood by the window, looking at the direction of the Criminal Department from a distance, the fire that rushed to the sky had not been extinguished, but from such a distance, she was like being in a fire.

There was a sound of footsteps behind him, and Qi Changrong stood there, not moving.

Only one person could enter the dormitory after she had gone to bed.

Sun came over and put on her coat: "The wind is cold at night, Your Highness is weak, don't stand for a long time." ”

Qi Changrong said: "It's so late, why is Mama here?" ”

Sun sighed and replied: "I heard that the punishment department was on fire, so I couldn't sleep, and I knew that you were used to thinking too much, so you must not have fallen asleep, so I came to take a look." ”

At this glance, she was even more puzzled, wondering whether the prince was awakened or had never fallen asleep.

Qi Changrong smiled, his eyes were dark: "This fire will burn bigger and bigger, and I don't know how many people will die in the fire." ”

Sun followed her line of sight and didn't quite understand what she meant: "How come, I heard that the fire is under control now, and there are no casualties." ”

Qi Changrong shook his head and smiled lightly.

She's not talking about the fire.

Rather, the anger of the Son of Heaven that is about to rise, the anger of Emperor Jin An can set the prairie on fire.

I don't know how many people will be implicated.

The next day, the fire was extinguished, and Ye Quan prepared an excerpt overnight to report, telling the cause of the fire and the losses after the fire, as well as the assassin who infiltrated the prison and was killed on the spot.

The Puting case became more and more like seeing flowers in the fog, and the people of the DPRK and China were panicked.

Knowing that someone was trying to rob the prison, Emperor Jin An was furious, and knew that a person jumped into the river and fled, so he immediately ordered the imperial city guards to search from house to house along the lower reaches of the lake.

The movement is very high.

Even the powerful minister Jiang Bowen did not escape, and he couldn't stop it from seeing his home being searched.

But in the end, nothing was found, and the man seemed to have disappeared out of thin air.

The loss of the criminal department was great, and half of it was destroyed by a fire, Ye Quan trembled and handed over the excerpt to ask Emperor Jin An to call the shots, and gave up his old face and cried a handful of snot and tears.

In front of the ministers, Emperor Jin An was annoyed and couldn't do it, so with a wave of the imperial pen, he set aside a sum of silver and ordered the craftsman to repair it as soon as possible.

When the goal was achieved, Ye Quan immediately withdrew his tears, prostrate on the ground and shouted, "Thank you, Your Majesty." ”

After he finished speaking, Emperor Jin An got up and left.

Ye Quan slowly stood up, dusted off the invisible ash in his clothes, and calmly exited the Jinluan Hall under the gaze of everyone.

Don't look at his calm appearance, but those who know a little about him know that Ye Quan is a villain who will repay his teeth, and he retreats one by one, and he doesn't dare to provoke the evil gods at this time.

Ye Quan grinded his teeth secretly, he had to cry in front of Emperor Jin An today, and when he came, he would make others cry even more.

Since he couldn't catch the head of the assassin, he could only settle all the accounts on Pu Ting alone.

Qi Changrong changed into civilian clothes and was about to leave the palace.

When the carriage arrived at the second palace gate, it was stopped, and the palace gate was not opened at this time.

Qi Changrong lifted the curtain, and the person who came was Ye Quan, the secretary of the Criminal Department.

"Chen Yequan, His Royal Highness Prince Xie gave instructions yesterday."